I will say though, that the message began with the letters A, U, R, which immediately caught my eye, as being the beginning of the Latin word for gold, Aurum, but it turned out that the message was a mirror image, which started Are You A… Unfortunately my original notes were thrown out many years ago, and I have been unable to replicate the message at this time, and so I will not give the message here, for fear of inaccuracy. However, using the picture borders, in one of the possible orders suggested, and, bearing in mind the phrase “Jack jumps over the flame”, coupled with the numbers in the sand square, and starting from the jester in picture 2, I managed to obtain a lucid message. Some of my interpretations may of course be wrong, for example, the obvious clue “one of six to eight” passed me by completely. The colours of the letters in the Newton paper square, I also associated with the ring colours of the main marionette in the picture (Jack as opposed to Jill ?), whose limbs pointed to the alchemical elements – Earth – yellow, Fire – blue, Water – green, Air – red. The sun rises in Taurus in May), C – Sea (1, Lunar seas, old and Cold), R – Robin, (8, the only in-offensive item in the picture), N – (9, ENd to ENd…), M – Morning, (3, the “Horning” of the moon meaning a crescent moon), F – Fall, (16, where the marionette has fallen down).
Janet Fishwick notes that picture 12 is the most important in the book–but the painting before and the painting after it in the book are red herrings.īack in the day, when the hunt was on, I believed that the letters shown in the Newton paper square, were each related to a picture.ĮY – Equinoctial Year (Picture 2), ST – STroke, a pictogram of a swimmer (15), OL – Our Lady, a pictogram of a seated Madonna with halo, (6, with the references to chastity, also showing an ear of corn or “spike”, Spica being the star Alpha Virgo), WO – Watchet One (4, where the “1” square in the number puzzle is coloured a light blue, sometimes called watchet), PO – Polaroid (11, “green eye glass”), DU – Double U (5, a reference to the use of “u u” to represent “w” in the element puzzle), K – Koi (14, the carp’s tail pointing to “o” and “i”), B – Bee (13), T – Tea (12), HI – Prima Hyadum, (10, the brightest star of the Hyades cluster in Taurus, sometimes known as the “first little pig”. Catherine of Aragon introduced the Ampthill region to lacemaking. The game of “Jack Be Nimble” was from a rhyme chanted during the old game of candle leaping, which was played by lacemakers on St. The letters on Sir Issac’s magic square are the first initials of towns near Ampthill, and the numbers to which they correspond are their approximate distances from Ampthill in miles. This color sequence matches the rings on the puppets when a line is drawn from the eyes through the longest finger/biggest toe on each creature in every picture in the book (as per the clue on the book’s title page, about using your eyes and pointing to the prize), the lines point to the letters on the border, and the master riddle phrase is spelled out: “Catherine’s long finger over shadows earth buried yellow amulet midday points the hour in light of equinox look you.” The first letter from each word in that phrase spells “Close by Ampthill,” a geographical confirmer and the heart of Kit’s riddle. The colors in the magic square pinned to the wall correspond to the numbers in the magic square on Miss Penny Pockets‘ wrist. HIDDEN HARE: Hanging on the rack in the back of the picture.ĬLUES & COMMENTS: This is the key to the whole book. BORDER PHRASE: “Jack be nimble, Jack quick, and Jack jumps over the flame.”
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